HI!Thanks so much for posting this!! Great! I have been looking forward to this tutorial! I have a few questions if you don't mind! Hopefully you can understand what I'm asking!

After you finished the green stripe, for example, you just keep going to one side of it until that side/half of the quilt is done, and then go back to the green stripe and move in the opposite direction, or do you switch sides (moving in both directions towards both edges of the quilt?)

What do you use to mark lines if you're doing straight lines on the top? I have a white chalk but do you have something that you've found you like to use? It's hard to see my chalk on some fabrics.

You pin with safety pins before you sew? Is that what those are?

I tried to sew a stripe quilt like one you made- I forget exactly what you called it, but it's got one stripe that looks like it's intersecting the rest of the stripes. It kind of looks like when you quilted yours you sewed the vertical stripe going in that direction, but then also quilted the horizontal lines in their direction... how do you do this without having a bunch of threads to cut in the middle of the quilt? (Does this make any sense?) In other words, is it possible to do the wavy line stitching/straight top stitching in two different directions?

How do you get that adorable mustache on there? Just use a zigzag when the top stitching is done?

After finishing one line, I usually work all the way down that side of the quilt and then go back to the green stripe and move in the opposite direction. But you can do it whichever way is easiest for you! It really only matters for your first stitches down the marked seams/lines. Starting in the center and working your way out means there is less of a chance of getting large puckers since you can smooth the fabric out as you go. You can fill in the middle lines however you like!

I use a hera marker to mark lines. It is very similar to using a bone folder to score paper. It just leaves a small crease in the fabric without leaving any discoloration.

I use basting pins to baste my quilt layers together before I quilt. Basting pins are just safety pins that are slightly bent so the quilt lies flat while the pins are attached.

I think you're referring to the colorblock quilt. For that one I did straight line quilting down the vertical stripe and then horizontal straight line quilting down the left and the right sides of the quilt. I stopped in the middle of the quilt for each line and tied off the quilting. It's not ideal from a time perspective, but I'm not sure how else you would do it!

I appliqued the mustache on the quilt. I fused the brown Heath fabric to fusible interfacing (I used Heat N Bond I think) and then cut out the mustache from both layers. Then I fused it to the top of the quilt. I used a blanket stitch on my machine to topstitch around the mustache.

Oh that's perfect- thanks so much!! Yeah, I thought I could figure it out with the colorblock quilt... except I had like 300 threads to tie when I was done- also for some dumb reason didn't occur to me to make sure the stitching went off the sides of the quilt so they would be sewn in with the binding... hence I'm thankful for your tutorial! :) Next quilt will be so much easier! I'm fairly new to making quilts so I appreciate the tips like your basting pins and hera marker. I'll have to check at our local quilt store! Thanks again!!

Hi, new reader here! Thank you so much for your wonderful video! I'm still on my first quilt and the patchwork part is okay, but I've become a bit intimidated of quilting after having read various things online. Your pattern is quicker than most and very nice to look at, but I'm wondering about your comment "push and pull"; do you mean actual movements of such or rather "guide in different directions while the machine pulls the fabrics toward the needle"?

As I am typing this, my sewing machine sits, unopened, in its box. I'm THAT new. LOL! I have done a lot of "research" and I really like this type of quilting. I want to design quilts with a modern look, and I think this is the ticket. I do have a question. Do you just let your seam run off the fabric? Do you cut the thread before starting the next seam? Is the binding enough to keep the seams from coming undone? This part is not obvious to me. Thank you so much! Great tutorial.

I just finished this quilt and used your technique... thank you so much! It was the perfect quilting solution for a time-crunch, race to the finish quilt!http://seanandshey.blogspot.com/2014/03/when-card-wont-do.html

Thanks for the great tutorial! As a fairly new quilter, I have only done stitch-in-the-ditch machine quilting so far but wanted something nicer for a strip quilt I just pieced, this will be perfect! Thanks again!

Thankyou so much for this tutorial. I'm a little intimidated by a quilt I need to quilt. is it ok to sew over applique? I have four applique blocks in the quilt, the rest are pieced cats? It's for a sailor who loves cats and I think the wavy lines would be perfect. What do you think, can any pattern be quilted like this? Thankyou!

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